Urban Machinery:

Publication (Feb. 2008)

MIT Press

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• Preface - Download PDF (30 KB)

• Chapter 1: "Modernizing European Cities: Technological Uniformity and Cultural Distinction," by Mikael Hård and Thomas J. Misa - Download PDF (4.87 MB)

• Contributors - Download PDF (50 KB)
• Index - Download PDF (70 KB)

Chapter images (published and unpublished)

1. Hård and Misa, "Modernizing European Cities"
   
2. Disco, "Taming the Rhine"
   
3. Dinçkal, "Arenas of Experimentation"
   
4. Misa, "Appropriating the International Style"
   
5. Capuzzo, "Spectacles of Sociability"
   
6. Hård and Stippak, "Progressive Dreams"
   
7. Buiter, "Constructing Dutch Streets"
   
8. Schott, "Empowering European Cities"
   
9. Jajesniak-Quast, "In the Shadow of the Factory"
   
10. Hessler, "Science in the City"
    
11. Germuska, "Between Theory and Practice"
    
12. Lundin, "Mediators of Modernity"
13. Jamison, "Greening the City"

Reading and literature

• Tensions of Europe "Working Bibliography" [2001]
• Misa and Platt "Urban Technologies and the 20th Century City" [2001]
• TOE literature review "The Urban Machine" <pdf> [2003]
  

City images

 /images-by-city/ -- 200 recent images of Amsterdam, Antwerp, Berlin, Budapest, Darmstadt, Prague, Frankfurt (Romerstadt), Torremolinos, York (UK), Lisbon.  These pages provide generous thumbnail images and large-size full-color originals.

(all photos by Tom Misa, unless otherwise noted; please credit if used and send an email here.)